Instrumentation:

• children’s chorus — piano (optional)

Text: Nicholas Marconi

Duration: 4:00

First Performance: 16 May 2019 / Coach Barn of Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT / Lake Champlain Waldorf School Spring Benefit Chorus / Steven Olson, conductor

Program Note:

• My father’s elegant and concise poem, If You Were a Song, provided the basis for this folk song-like piece. I believe its simple and beautiful message, or rather, a moment in thought, as one relates to another human being, can resonate with young people.